Empowering Workers’ Rights Advocates

Workers are under attack like never before. They need advocates who will ensure their rights are protected. When you join NELA, you become part of the nation’s largest bar association for attorneys who fight for workers every day. NELA membership gives you access to:

• Effective legal strategies to protect workers in today’s workplace 
• Meaningful connection with more than 3,000 employee rights attorneys across the country
• Unparalleled opportunities for professional growth

Specialized Member Benefits

The NELA Exchange

Our online community for members to strategize, find co-counsel, and share information and resources.

Substantial Member Discounts On CLE By and For Plaintiffs’ Employment Lawyers

NELA’s Annual Convention and targeted seminars, like Trial Boot Camp and the Wage and Hour Update, foster belonging, build expertise, and strengthen advocacy at every stage of your practice.

Essential Tools and Resources

Special NELA member pricing on tools like Syllo, a cutting-edge eDiscovery platform, and Employee Rights Litigation: Pleading and Practice, NELA’s own treatise.

Professional Development Opportunities

Member involvement is integral to our community of workers’ rights advocates. Grow in your profession and develop leadership skills by volunteering to be an amicus brief writer, committee member, practice group chair, or speaker at a seminar, webinar, or the Annual Convention.

Advocate on the Hill for What Matters to Your Clients

Fighting forced arbitration, wage theft, eliminating damage caps, and advancing a fair and diverse judiciary.

Building Skills. Creating Community. Driving Change.

“Being a member of NELA feels like you are a part of something bigger. The programming, networking, and professional development opportunities have truly molded me into the lawyer I am today. ”

Briana P. Adams
Charlson Bredehoft Cohen Brown & Nadelhaft, PC | Washington, DC

“NELA’s community of dedicated advocates nationwide encourages and inspires me to do more and to do better for the workers we serve.”

Shoshee Hui
Kramer Brown Hui LLP | Los Angeles, CA

“Being a part of NELA has opened up so many doors for me. Most importantly, through NELA, I met my most thoughtful mentors and friends.”

Nico Stillwell
Edelman, Liesen & Myers LLP | Kansas City, MO

“As I started my law firm and began to litigate employment law cases, NELA’s programming and members have been instrumental in providing my law firm with the insights needed to take on the major employer-side law firms.”

Jamaal (“Jay”) W. Stafford, Esq.
The Law Firm of J.W. Stafford, LLC | Baltimore, MD

NELA’s mission is to empower workers’ rights attorneys through legal training, promoting a fair judiciary, and advocating for laws and policies that level the playing field for workers.

Affiliates

Working in partnership with our circuit, state, and local Affiliates, NELA’s advocacy extends from Capitol Hill to your community. Affiliate members get an additional $25 off NELA membership.